The US government slaps sanctions against six Iranian government officials linked to cyberattacks against Israeli PLC vendor Unitronics.
February 2, 2024 By Ryan Naraine
The US government on Friday announced sanctions against six Iranian government officials caught launching cyberattacks against Israeli PLC vendor Unitronics.
The Treasury Department said the six officials are part of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Cyber-Electronic Command (IRGC-CEC), a Tehran organization “responsible for a series of malicious cyber activities against critical infrastructure in the United States and other countries.”
“The United States is taking action against these individuals in response to IRGC-affiliated cyber actors’ recent cyber operations in which they hacked and posted images on the screens of programmable logic controllers manufactured by Unitronics, an Israeli company,” the Justice Department said.